regard to what markets are looking for and investors are looking for is an assurance that that kind of progress will continue regardless of who gets the top shop good to speak with you humana blanco thank you all the i.m.f. tough medicine has failed to help argentina and many other countries pakistan agreed a deal with the i.m.f. to get a $6000000000.00 loan its 13th since the 1980 s. but it's terms of very similar to those of argentina the currency will be devalued electricity and gas subsidies will be scrapped and it's likely to prove unpopular across the country to come out higher as more. after months of negotiations with the international monetary fund an agreement on a $6000000000.00 loan package bugger's gone government needs to current draw economic crises and their deal with the i.m.f. may not be did but if necessary pakistan needs to undertake a very painful but it's an adjustment to perform and that the country will need to

undertake most notably into includes a more flexible currency 2nd reforms in electricity and gas sector. reforms in the public sector enterprises which are throwing up huge losses. in his election campaign imran khan accused previous governments of boring excessively from the i.m.f. . no he'd agreed a loan with the organization saying the ball won't be affected by dad something many people here aren't buying. i'm a painter and if you talk about the dollar rupee parity it goes without saying that a falling rupee will mean rising costs for paint which will have a knock on effect on people like me. there is widespread anger including from the opposition. the government the sold us into the slavery of the i.m.f. and we do not accept this we announced

a rebellion both against this and the government sitting in parliament we cannot witness the destruction of a country. many economists and political opponents are calling the deal a sellout and it really poured a heavy burden on an already faltering economy and lead to hyperinflation their government and their delayed going to the i.m.f. because of the help their god from their saudi than the u.a.e. why did all the record amount of watering by previous government mean that 45 percent of the annual budget had to be used for dead repayment and it had to acknowledge. their falling rupee eccentric or didn't feel like getting off and that something many here say is not what they were expecting from a government that promised change and relief for the fall. now on top of the severe shortages of food medicine and power venezuelans are now

finding it increasingly hard to find petrol u.s. economic sanctions and mismanagement of the oil industry have pushed the energy sector to a crisis point on latin america editor lucien newman reports. the queues to philip cars with fuel in northwestern venezuela are 23 to 4 kilometers long. near the city of motorists hope and pray they'll be lucky to make it to the pump before it runs dry. yesterday i was in line for 6 hours and couldn't fill up. is that normal i ask. with this government apparently it is. producing country and. on top of shortages of water. the further you go the harder it is to find petrol but in the past 2 weeks the hunt for fuel has become much worse. look we've started

a great check. these are the messages from today. there's several causes for the crisis a industry experts. down to 20 percent of its normal level instead of 1300000 barrels a day we're. joined in $60000.00 which means we have to import gasoline. putting it from the united states but as of april 28th the u.s. government stopped all sales not just of fuel but of the additives needed to make the petrol that than his whale is still able to refine at home and then there's the chronic problem of price distortions all the patrol in this tanker truck 13000 liters costs less than $1.00 which means it's practically free but only if you can find it these shortages and these long lines are creating

a black market with some people charging as much as $10.00 for 20 leaders now anywhere else that may be considered peanuts but here it is the only thing cheaper than petrol is the air that you breathe that is considered a fortune and much more than the minimum wage. shortages have not yet impacted the capital caracas but experts say it may not be long before they do an irony that escapes no one in venezuela the country with the world's largest oil reserves. in israel. i want to founder of facebook calls for the social media network to be broken up you really do need to sit up and take notice social media giant has been at the center of a storm over the access to data of its users most notably by cambridge analytic of the british political consultancy harvested data on millions of facebook users

without their consent while working with donald trump's 2016 presidential campaign in a financial filing facebook has said it expects to be fined up to $5000000000.00 by u.s. regulators for that and many other transgressions that's a slap on the wrist for the social media giant the racked up $56000000000.00 in revenue in 2018 so i'm concerned our investors by the find the company's share price has risen 40 percent this year alone pushing the value of facebook to $527000000000.00 joining me now from london is steve bartman c.e.o. of the global social media agency social chain thanks very much for being with us so there is no other company in the world that can claim 2000000000 people on its platforms and there's no way any company could police what what people post on it so surely that is the case isn't it to break up facebook. i think i would i would have to disagree i think the reason why you break up companies usually is because

they are a fundamental and required product for civilization and they have a monopoly over that space and i think 1st and foremost you really need to define what monopoly we're claiming that facebook have social network social networking is a very broad topic and really you could consider social networking anything from a message to text messaging to twitter to you tube except except for when you look at facebook's business model they make 99 percent of their revenue from advertising and they certainly even on the internet alone don't have a monopoly of advertising i think google only 32 percent of the other online advertising market so even google are more of a monopoly per se than in facebook are. but as though have gained an enormous concentration of power and data are they are they turning into harmful monopolies do you think i don't think so i think i wouldn't claim that they're a monopoly i think that there are so many different sort of competing forces for

various parts of their business model from the social networking side to the advertising business to the communications side of their business and really you know they make their money from advertising but they are a communications platform and if we're talking about communications and over xander the word then there's a lot of competition there across the internet or you are on some of the most popular pages on facebook so how does that affect your business if major changes are made to it. we own big sort of social communities over all of the biggest social platforms from from instagram to you tube to twitch to facebook to the podcast store and our sort of portfolio of media is split across all of these platforms we do about 2000000000 video these pump month across all of the major platforms so breaking up the facebook specifically won't really impact our business because those platforms will go into other hands but i think if you're trying to solve the problem of sort of misinformation or privacy i genuinely genuinely

believe and i have no honestly have no vested interest in really saying this and if you look at the content and the stuff that i post online i've given my very honest opinion on the faults within facebook but i genuinely believe that breaking up the platform that is facebook in the teams will probably not serve to fix the issue at hand but how easy is it though to access data on individual behavior. it's it's it's getting harder it's certainly harder for i do ties in bodies and even social platforms to access the data the road dates are on individuals i think a lot of it's moving to encryption now we've seen what's happening to an encrypted message and platform and that's. the general trend i think mark zuckerberg in his recent f.a.a. announcement out that facebook was going to come even more of a private platform focus on private communities and groups and also when we think about behavioral trends generally from a social networking perspective we've all gone a little bit more private and we share personal information less than any time in

recent history i think generally a lot of this is being caused because society of started to catch more i don't i don't entirely believe that as consumers we really understand the implications of. data being misused but i think the press generally have a pretty significant job of convincing people that are stolen data is doing very very bad things even though i don't think we all know exactly you know when we talk about these hacks like crimson hexagon and what the actual implications were we just hear that your stolen data has gotten x. person and elected and i think that's in fly mature enough for all of us to suddenly care about something that we don't really know a lot about when you're in a position to be able to help companies target audiences and make products and ideas trend just talk us through a bit of that process yes there are sort of core business is in advertising as well

so where a global social 1st market agency and that's kind of kind of our founding business and the biggest brands in the world will come to us to help us understand how to engage and communicate young people and people across the internet and to stay ahead of the changes that happen every single day across all of these platforms and then our 2nd business is our media company and we own and operate some of the largest social communities across a variety of meat is on you tube facebook instagram podcasting and everything in between and really that where we operate as a sort of traditional social publishing house i guess all right so the bollard thanks very much for being with us. thank you thank our matic facial recognition technology uses our unique facial dimensions to let us access bank accounts go cashless in holiday resorts and use automated border controls but they are far as it's known can also track us and invade our privacy for brennan reports on the u.k.'s 1st legal challenge against the technology. security or surveillance

cameras have become a silent ubiquitous feature of cities across the world residents seem almost oblivious to the routine monitoring of their daily lives. at bridges was irritated the 1st time he realized the police automatic facial recognition vehicle that scanned his features in a shopping center but the 2nd time it happened was at a peaceful and arms trade protest and on that occasion the van was parked opposite the crowded i felt it was better to intimidate people and destroyed them from using their right to peaceful protest so it has taken south wales police to court in the 1st u.k. challenge to the use of a f r i mean essentially what you have is a situation where technology is running miles ahead of where the lorries and the law needs to catch up here for biometrics is increasingly used for things like keyless buildings and cashless leisure resorts but civil liberties groups are most concerned by its use in public spaces to scam more abiding citizens as they walk

past the camera it takes a really sensitive biometric data from them without their knowledge or their consent says radio akin to them walking down the high street and the police forcibly taking their fingerprint or their d.n.a. automatic facial recognition has dramatically improved thanks to rapid advances in a computer technology known as d. planet the accuracy is still variable at the 2017 champions league final the system produced 92 percent of false positives and even if accuracy can be improved the still the other questions of governance and of purpose and the wider question of exactly when protection of the public tips over into intrusion and oppression. china's mass surveillance of its citizens including the use of facial recognition is well known in 2017 australia authorized police and some private companies to use and access a controversial new fast system but this month the u.s.

city of san francisco banned since your thirty's from deploying the technology academic dr anna hence has examined digital citizenship and surveillance our data trails makers transparency says the balance of power is shifting we have become very transparent on the other hand the process by which we are assessed also through our data and not very transparent and in that sense and we can see there is a reversal in empowerment and power shifts from the citizen to the states al-jazeera approached the company and e.c. and other providers but none responded to interview requests in a statement london's metropolitan police said it's a pilot scheme it now and it and the results are being assessed judgement in bridges legal challenge is expected to be handed down in the autumn and that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by tweeting me at has i'm sick at and you use the hash tag a j c t c when you do or crops an email counting the cost that al-jazeera dot net is our address and there's more for you on line i

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shareholders completely overwhelms any consideration of public health can they be trusted with building a healthier future if their loyalty becomes questionable views of the people that are out of the h one n one is a good thing what if it were you know oh yes just as bruce has done here in terms of trust that you trust who our knowledge is the. a deadline passes in algeria with no one successfully registering to stand in the presidential election. and this is al jazeera live from also coming up diplomacy on the golf course as president trump begins the 2nd day of his visit to japan. iran's foreign minister

warns of a dangerous escalation as the u.s. sends more troops to the middle east. and could this grain from the bolivian and peruvian andes be the world's next super food. now the deadline to file applications to stand in algeria's presidential election in july has passed local media reporting that most possibly all of the potential candidates failed to meet the legal requirements to run for president protesters against the elections saying the current government is linked to former leader abdul-aziz bush a fico nationwide demonstrations have continued now into their 14th week he was pushed out of power after weeks of demonstrations leaving the country at a crossroads the 82 year old was algeria's longest serving president in power for

20 is mass protests began in february when he announced his bid to run for a 5th term many thought he wasn't fit to run he had rarely been seen in public after suffering a stroke in 2013 by march 11th the president was forced to reverse his reelection bid he promised reforms and named a new prime minister but it wasn't enough because of who was forced to step down in april under pressure from protesters and the army when lawrence is a professor of political science and international affairs at george washington university he says it's unlikely the elections will be postponed. well this is another blow to the effort by the army to have elections on july 4th we are in had a number of previous problems mayors and political fishel ready refusing to administer the elections number a national figure said written a recent letter calling on the elections to be postponed because there is no a support from the general population and we have of course $77.00 letters of

intent that none of these candidates approved and even some last minute withdrawals this week from kid s. that could have presented a viable candidacy and so here we are with scheduled election and no candidates now we have as before and our jury in 1992 or all the opposition candidates with drew have rejected some of their own similar grounds what's different now is that we have the choirs in totality of the population and. who are opposed to my actions on the current day so i don't see any way out except for the army to postpone the elections again. now u.s. president on trial has teed off with japanese prime minister shinzo are there as a golf course and chiba south of take care it's the 5th time they've played together trump arrived in japan on saturday evening for a 4 day state visit which will include amazing with new and primary and talks with

the prime minister on trade when he has more for. a day all of sports and leisure on sunday will give way to the real business on monday when u.s. president donald trump becomes the 1st foreign leader to meet japan's new emperor another hito and then there will be the summit between donald trump and japan's prime minister shinzo it seems certain that trade will be discussed as soon as donald trump arrived in japan on saturday he spoke to a group of japanese business leaders again referencing that big trade deficit that the united states has with japan saying that he wants to get a better deal however we're not expecting any significant announcements over the next few days when it comes to trade we've already heard from japan's chief trade negotiator saying that he doesn't even expect a partial agreement to be reached while donald donald trump is in japan they will also discuss the issue with north regarding north korea particularly given the 2 missile tests that pyongyang conducted earlier this month donald trump has already

tweeted about that on sunday before his round of golf with japan's prime minister saying that north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others but not me a clear reference there perhaps to his own national security advisor john bolton he is also in japan and spoke about this on saturday saying that the missile tests from north korea were clear violations of united nations security council resolutions and that is something that the japanese prime minister has also said. iran says the u.s. decision to send us to the middle east is extremely dangerous president donald trump insists the deployment of $1500.00 extra troops is needed because of what he calls a rainy and aggression. reports from tehran. the united states already has tens of thousands of active military personnel stationed in and around the middle east

so $1500.00 more is a relatively small addition even billions of dollars in weapon sales to countries in the region could be seen as par for the course but in the current climate of conflict through the prism of tension with the united states iran is taking every move that the americans make in the region very seriously foreign minister jihads aris said american decisions are endangering international peace and security he said u.s. accusations against iran are only designed to justify hostile american policies and raise tensions in the middle east he also said once again that there will be no talks with the white house of u.s. president donald trump but reports of emerge the during a recent trip to the united nations in new york in april job odds are if met with democratic senator dianne feinstein who sits on the senate intelligence committee the foreign ministry in iran released a statement saying the meeting was consultation of and routine but should not be seen as any kind of a negotiation the goal the statement said was to maintain

a line of communication with non governing political players in the u.s. to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called it made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran. well as them mentions that u.s. media is reporting a meeting between johnson serious and dianne feinstein a single democrat on the senate intelligence committee and fisher has more from washington d.c. . it's not unusual for politicians across the board to meet with diplomats from other countries what is slightly unusual this time is that it was a senior democratic senator meeting with the iranians no dianne feinstein's office said that they spoke to the state department before the meeting and they asked for a briefing on come around u.s. relations the meeting happened 3 or 4 weeks ago so things have changed in the

interim period and there's no confirmation from the state department in the meeting actually went ahead but the iranians have confirmed that and there's some reports in the u.s. media that might pompey or the secretary of state is actually concerned some even see angry that this meeting actually went ahead no the u.s. policy is very clear donald trump has articulated it on several occasions he believes it's all about exerting maximum pressure on iran he believes that with the current economic sanctions by choking off the market for around all industry that that will force the arena calling me into trouble and will force the really leadership back to the negotiating table there are some in washington who believe that john bolton the national security advisor is very much in favor of military action against iran and that might pompey or the secretary of state is also a hawk when it comes to that as well but you have to remember though trump has spoken on several occasions about what he sees as expensive needless for and war as

he says you don't spend that sort of money and get nothing out of it it's very much with his american foreign policy so here's a lot to launch any sort of military action he's talked about the war in iraq says he opposed it from the very beginning not quite true but he's also opposed to the high troop numbers in afghanistan so he seems reluctant to commit to any. extensive military action against iran while the advisers advised donald trump the president who will decide and the moment he seems to be deciding all about economic pressure rather than direct military action. president on trump is using the perceived threat from iran to declare a national security emergency that would allow billions in arms sales to saudi arabia and the emirates to go ahead without congressional approval critics like democratic senator and presidential hopeful elizabeth warren says it it poses

a serious threat to civilians in yemen she to me says it's revolting to suggest that we need to help the saudis kill civilians in order to stand up to iran our only emergency is a president who cares more about making money for his defense contractor buddies than the democratic will of congress or the moral catastrophe in yemen not it has me as the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he says the trumpet ministration is invoking a false threat in order to support its allies. i think there's several things that are happening one there is a clear attempt to try and squeeze you're on to promote regime change in iran there's an internal white house battle over how to proceed but the other element of the story here is the war in yemen there's a lot of outrage a lot of anger in the united states particularly in congress over you know the humanitarian catastrophe there the use of american weapons to commit war crimes against yemeni civilians and so the truck administration wants to support its saudi

and iraqi allies i mean these are these are very close and intimate tie between those 2 countries and the only way you can get around congressional oversight which you know wants to block these arms deals in fact you know there was a you know a joint resolution in both houses of congress trying to prevent these types of arms sales that was vetoed by the president so so truckers evoking this you know false threat laying the blame on iran which is easy you know bogey to invoke to get around congressional oversight to stick to a pre i think existing policy that is supporting the saudi policy in yemen you know to the end right or wrong the united states under a truck wants to back that policy syrian activists are reporting the use of white phosphorus by the syrian government and russian forces this video is said to show the attacks between conscious. and southern and white phosphorus and is an incendiary material that's banned as a weapon that can cause severe and breathing trouble the syrian government launched

an assault on in that province last month and for the last major area of rebel held territory in syria. a land mine explosion has killed at least 6 chatty and sellers as in a chat a t.v. cameraman with a convoy also diet they were also multiple injuries when the landmine exploded on the road between the city of by the solar and the town of a poet on chad's border with nigeria. sudan's military chief is in neighboring egypt on his 1st trip abroad since the army overthrew former president omar al bashir. held talks with egyptian president sisi the meeting has been closely watched by protest groups who reject any interference by egypt protest leaders in sudan have called for a general strike this week in a bid to force the military to hand over power to civilians.